One of The Most Damaging Practices When it Comes to Employee Engagement

There are a number of fundamental practices that need to be in place to have an engaged workforce.
 
So that you can avoid the myriad of problems employers face when employees are disengaged, such as:
 
💠 Retention Issues
💠 Difficulty attracting top talent
💠 High absenteeism rates
💠 Low Productivity
💠 High number of customer complaints
 
All of the various core practices are important.
 
𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙚𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨.
 
So, having even one employee, who is a poor fit, is detrimental to your employee engagement levels and building or maintaining a thriving culture.

Anyone who is not a good fit shouldn't be there:

• Maybe they're great at their job but terrible to work with
• It could be they're a great person, everyone loves them, but they don't have the skills for the role
• Or it may be that they're bad at their job AND no-one wants to work with them

All of these employees are poor performers.

Even the employee who’s doing an excellent job technically.

And even if it’s a hard-to-find skillset.

It doesn’t matter why they're still there:

📌 Maybe it’s apathy
📌 It could be that they’ve been there since the company started
📌 Or they're someone’s college roommate or best friend

Whatever the reason, having even one employee who is not a good fit drags down morale and negatively impacts engagement.

𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨.

So, don’t think that making just one exception doesn’t matter – it really does!

Bottom line, allowing poor performers to stay is undermining your business success.
 
And you’ll lose employees and find it difficult to recruit great candidates as long as it continues.